Influence of skull conductivity perturbations on EEG dipole source analysis

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4475-4484

  Chen, Fangmin ^a   Hallez, Hans ^a   Staelens, Steven ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

EEG source analysis; forward inverse problem; skull conductivity perturbation; spherical and realistic head model

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERRORS; LOCATION;

DIPOLE ORIENTATION; ELECTRO-ENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG); ESTIMATION ERRORS; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; REALISTIC HEAD MODELS; SKULL CONDUCTIVITY; SOURCE ANALYSIS; SPHERICAL HEAD MODELS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKULL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SKULL;

EID: 78149479508     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3466831     Document Type: Article

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